Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.